ILLUSTRATIONS OF INDIAN BOTANY. 



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either equal or unequal, imbricated or caliculate, or variously Zgakil. "■" 



flowers 



the ceotral ones Howenng fi«t, the c:.terior ones later or flouering out of fhe utal „ S!;^ '" 



capitula the receptacle is saiS 7n \! T '; v v^'^ ^'1 fP?^'^'^^^' or naked. In some 

 areola surrounds the base 7eaehflo war! ' ^' ^^ "■■' '"''°''"'' ^k"« » Pe»l»SonaI 



vegetable kingdom. ._ 



but always simple, not compound. 



g nearly one-tenth part of the 



(when simple) 



forms 



^^m^^mmm 



Homoch 





vegetable kingdom, like 



:,'?.-S: »-sit ;?t."± r atSsHl".S=:.:?i 



r;:£^%.-t.e.i-"i£^-«*.li-=^^^^^^ 



Xanthium 



appearance 



per- 



^^ter- Ln/pfaf °^ --- tM T elnnr help 3^;^ h^S^ 



So. ant£ Z' ett ""1'™ "/ P*^ ""■'""^ *•>' valvatr^s^v^L X' u"su^ ^ 

 anthers but dSr in ,1 t "' ,?? Compositae. Some, as /:A«««<s, hare cohering 

 have it' comWd J?h f^ ","^ """^. *'*'• '"*"y l'*™ ™'™'« estivation, but nonf 



ilt 'L?°r'""* ■Y'"' ^}^ P,!""'"" ™>«":«» and united anthers of this famii;. Solitary 



ovules are 



of flip nrrlai. T»K Tr T ""v-^'^xx^iixcu v^iwi aii^ uixier oi me essential characters 



"till reqXe io beTouIht Z. '' ""^ ""'°"' ^'^""^ ^'''"'"'' "="' ^-^""^ "-' -'^«'- 



JVi. J»™n J?l!f /"""t "i il'',. ''"^- '"■l'"ta°t doctrine embodied in DeCandolIe's term Coro«a 

 SnnS ^ kY' ^ i""?" "l"" ,'S'r'^'',"'' »" «'''™<=' ft»"' Mf- Bf°>™'8 admirable paper on 

 facS'on whi?h H r'ests.'" *' ^ 2th Vol. of the Linnean Transactions, which iiln the 



,«r^ii7'"' iT*!."'". 1°'' C<"nP»S''« agf«e in two remarkable points of structure of their 

 t h ?is ''■'Th ' fir^'^nf 'r'"''^ •.' '^f ' , -"»*"i?lly ^^ i« determining the ifmits of 



tue Class, ine nrst ot these is its valvnloi. «>of,v«*,VT, . ♦»,;<, !,„-,„„„- :i. t__ • 



'., , , „ " — valvular 



With several other families. The second I 



the 



has in common 



to unnoticed. It consists in th^ dispositf.n '^^^L fasdoi;^ of \;;er orSf^eT; TZ' 



